Cancer Care

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regular exercise in adolescence and young adulthood may help cut a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer before menopause, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday.

The women who were the most physically active were 23 percent less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than the women who got the least exercise, the researchers wrote in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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WASHINGTON - Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years — starting as young as age 12 — can help protect girls from breast cancer when they’re grown. Middle-aged women have long been advised to get active to lower their risk of breast cancer after menopause. (more…)

There is a new approach to estimating tumor growth and it is based on breast screening.

The rate at which breast cancer tumors grow often varies among patients and the latest research shows that growth tends to be faster among younger women.

These findings may help in planning and evaluating screening programs, clinical trials and other studies.

Scientists found that using a new mathematical model, they were also able to estimate the numbers of breast cancers detectable by mammography.

This is a new approach to estimating the growth rate of tumors and the ability of mammograms to find them.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers.

The chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman’s life is about 1 in 8.

It is estimated that this year, alone, more than 180,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women in the United States.

Women living in North America have the highest rate of breast cancer in the world, and at this time there are about 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.

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May 13, 2008 — Mothers, here’s another reason to encourage your daughters to be physically active: Girls and young women who exercise regularly between the ages of 12 and 35 have a substantially lower risk of breast cancer before menopause compared to those who are less active, new research shows.

In the largest and most detailed analysis to date of the effects of exercise on premenopausal breast cancer, the study of nearly 65,000 women found that those who were physically active had a 23 percent lower risk of breast cancer before menopause. In particular, high levels of physical activity from ages 12 to 22 contributed most strongly to the lower breast cancer risk.

The study, by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University in Boston, will be available online May 13 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Newswise — The addition of an ultrasound examination to mammography for women at high-risk of breast cancer resulted in a higher rate of cancer detection, but also increased the number of false-positive results, according to a study in the May 14 issue of JAMA.

Supplemental screening ultrasound has the potential of depicting small, node-negative breast cancers (when there is no cancer in the lymph nodes) not seen on mammography, according to background information in the article.

Wendie A. Berg, M.D., Ph.D., of the American Radiology Services Inc., Johns Hopkins Green Spring, Lutherville, Md., and colleagues conducted a study to compare the diagnostic effectiveness of screening breast mammography plus ultrasound vs. mammography alone in women at increased risk of breast cancer. The study included 2,809 women with dense breast tissue who were randomized to undergo mammographic and ultrasonographic examinations.
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TeleChoice and Football NSW are thanking female soccer supporters for helping to raise over $3,500 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation over Mother’s Day weekend.
For every female who attended a Premier League game on Mother’s Day weekend, TeleChoice and Football NSW donated $5 to NBCF.

703 women attended the six Premier League games over the weekend, which resulted in a donation of over $3,500 to NBCF.

Michelle Schlosz, TeleChoice State Manager NSW/ACT, says it was fantastic to see the local community rally together to raise critical funds for a great cause.
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Premier Danny Williams denies that he is trying to intimidate Newfoundland and Labrador’s breast cancer inquiry, even as he criticizes how the inquiry is operating.

Williams sparked an uproar last Thursday evening when he used the words “witch hunt” to describe the tone of the inquiry, which he said he has become too adversarial and like a prosecution.

The issue erupted in the house of assembly Monday, with politicians accusing each other of using breast cancer patients for political purposes.
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